Mussorgsky , Talvela , Gedda Boris Godunov Genre: Classical Track Listings (22) - Disc #1 Prologue, Scene 1: Nu, shtozh vy? - Kazimierz Pustelak Prologue, Scene 1: Na, kovo ty nas pokidaesh, otyets nash! - Chor/Zofia RomanowskaWlodzimierz Zakewski/Kazimierz Pustelak Prologue, Scene 1: Pravoslavnyye! nye umolim byarin! - Andrzej Hiolski Prologue, Scene 1: Slava tebye, tvortsu vsevyshnemu, na zemli! - Chor Prologue, Scene 1: Slykhal, shto bozhyi lyudi govorili? - Chor/Wlodzimierz Zakewski/Kazimierz Pustelak Prologue, Scene 2: Da zdravstvuet tsar Boris Feodorovich! - Bohdan Paproki/Chorus Prologue, Scene 2: Skorbit dusha! - Martti Talvela Prologue, Scene 2: Slava, Slava, Slava! - Chor Act 1, Scene 1: Yeshcho odno poslyedneye skazaye - Leonard Mroz Act 1, Scene 1: Odinako Blizok dyen... - Leonard Mroz/Chor/Nicolai Gedda Act 1, Scene 1: Ty vsyo pisal i snom nye pozabylsa - Nicolai Gedda/Leonard Mroz Act 1, Scene 1: Nye syetuy, brat, shto rano greshny svyet pokinul - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Act 1, Scene 1: A syn yevo Feodor? - Leonard Mroz Act 1, Scene 1: Davno, Chyestnoy, otyets - Nicolai Gedda/Leonard Mroz Act 1, Scene 1: Zvonyat k zautrenye - Leonard Mroz/Chor/Nicolai Geddas Act 1 Scene 2: Poymala ya siza seleznya - Stefania Toczyska/Nicolai Gedda Act 1 Scene 2: Zheno, mir domu tvoemu! - Aage Haugland/Stefania Toczyska/Kazimierz Pustelak/Nicolai Gedda Act 1 Scene 2: Kak vo gorode bylo vo Kazane - Aage Haugland Act 1 Scene 2: Shtozh ty nye podtyagivaesh - Aage Haugland/Nicolai Gedda/Kazimierz Pustelak Act 1 Scene 2: Kak, yedet yon - Kazimierz Pustelak/Nicolai Gedda/Stefania Toczyska/Kazimierz Sergiel Act 1 Scene 2: Nu, otsy moi, kakovo promyshlyaete? - Kazimierz Sergiel/Aage Haugland/Sefania Toczyska Act 1 Scene 2: Ya gramotny - Nicolai Gedda/Kazimierz Sergiel/Kazimierz Pustelak Track Listings (25) - Disc #2 Act 2: Gdye ty, zhenikh moy - Halin Lukomska/Wiera Baniewicz/Bozena Brun-Baranska Act 2: Kak komar drova rubil - Bozena Brun-Baranska Act 2: Ekh, mama, mamushka - Wiera Baniewicz/Bozena Brun-Baranska Act 2: Chevo? al lyuty zvyer nasyedku vpolokhnul? - Martti Talvela/Bozena Brun-Baranska/Halina Lukomska Act 2: A ty, moy syn chem zanyat? - Martti Talvela/Wiera Baniewicz Act 2: Dostig ya vyshey vlasti - Martti Talvela Act 2: Shto takoe? - Chor/Martti Talvela/Wladyslaw Jurozek/Wiera Baniewicz Act 2: Popnika nash sidyel s mamkami v svetlitse - Wiera Baniewicz/Martti Talvela Act 2: Moy syn, ditya moyo rodnoye! - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Act 2: A preslany vitiya - Martti Talvela/Bohdan Paprocki Act 2: Konyeshno, tsar, sil'na tvoya derzhava - Bohdan Paprocki/Martti Talvela/Wiera Baniewicz Act 2: Vzyat' myery, syey zhe chas - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Act Two; V Uhgliche, v soborye, pred vsyem narodom - Martti Talvela/Bohdan Paprocksi Act 2: Uf! tyazhelo! Day dukh perevedu... - Martti Talvela Act 3, Scene 1: Na Vislye lazurnoy - Chor/Bozena Kinasz Act 3, Scene 1: Krasotka panna blagodarna - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Act 3, Scene 1: Kak tomitel'no i vyalo - Bozena Kinasz Act 3, Scene 1: A! Akh, eto ty, moy otyets! - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Act 3, Scene 1: Krasoyu svoyeyu pleni samozvantsa! - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Act 3, Scene 1: Plamenem adckim glaza tvoi zasverkali - Bozena Kinasz/Andrzej Hiolski Act 3, Scene 2: V polnoch...v sadu...u fontana - Nicolai Gedda Act 3, Scene 2: Tsaruevich!...Opyat' za mnoy! - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Act 3, Scene 2: Zloy dyemon! - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Act 3, Scene 2: No yesli Dimitriy vnushenyem bozhyim - Avdrzej Hiolski/Chorus/Nicolai Gedda Act 3, Scene 2: Polonaise...Vashey strsti ya nye vyeryu, panye - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Track Listings (22) - Disc #3 Act 3, Scene 2: Kak tomitel'no, kak dolgo - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Act 3, Scene 2: My i v khizhinye ubogoy - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Act 3, Scene 2: Stoy, Marina! - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Act 3, Scene 2: O tsaryevich, umolyayau - Nicolai Gedda/Bozena Kinasz Act 4, Scene 1: Shto, otoshia obyednya? - Chor/Wlodzimierz Zalewski Act 4, Scene 1: Trrr, trrr, trrr, trrr! - Roham Dyllus/Paulos Raptis Act 4, Scene 1: A-a A-a!...Kormilets batyushka - Paulos Raptis/Chor Act 4, Scene 1: A-a! A-a! Boris! a Boris! - Paulos Raptis/Martti Talvela/Bohdan Paprocki Act 4, Scene 2: Sanovityye boyare! - Andrzej Hiolski Act 4, Scene 2: Shtozh? poydom na golosa, boyare - Chor Act 4, Scene 2: Zhal', Shuyskovo nyet knyazya - Chor/Bohdan Paprocki/Martti Talvela Act 4, Scene 2: Ya sozva vas, boyare - Martti Talvela/Bohdan Paprocki Act 4, Scene 2: Smirenny inok - Leonard Mroz/Martti Talvela Act 4, Scene 2: Tsaryevicha skorey! - Martti Talvela Act 4, Scene 2: Zvon! pogrebal'ny zvon! - Martti Talvela/Chor/Wiera Baniewicz Act 4, Scene 3: Vali syuda! - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Act 4, Scene 3: Nye sokol letit po podnebyesyu - Chor Act 4, Scene 3: Sontse, lunsa pomyerknuli - Semkov/Polish Radio Nat SO Act 4, Scene 3: Gayda! Raskhodilas, razgulyalas - Aage Haugland/Kazimierz Pustelak/Chorus Act 4, Scene 3: Domine, Domine, salvum fac - Lavitsky/Chernikovsky/Chor/Aage Haugland/Kazimierz Pustelak Act 4, Scene 3: My, Dimitriy lvanovich - Nicolai Gedda/Ian Goralski/Chor/Lavitsky/Chernikovsky Act 4, Scene 3: Lyeytes, Lyeytes slyozy gorkiye - Paulos Raptis
Martti Talvela as the tormented tsar, Nicolai Gedda as his adversary and (historically, but not in the opera) short-lived successor Grigory, and Aage Haugland in the small but comically rich role of the monk Varlaam give p... more » articularly fine and distinctive performances in a generally good but not outstanding production. But the chief interest of this recording, dating from 1976, is that it is the first one to present Boris as imagined by Mussorgsky rather than in the Rimsky-Korsakov revision. --Joe McLellan « less